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Message: [QUOTE="veryolddog, post: 3009873, member: 129"] A couple of things to consider when looking at this issue is the changing demographics of the United States and the income representation of each State. Populations are migrating to warmer weather states and with that migration is the income that goes with it. Business demographics show that a strong migration to the warmer weather States will still continue along with corporate headquarters. Frankly, statistics of New England populations and wealth are shrinking as taxes and government obligations are increasing. Why bring Connecticut into a Power 5 program when you can recruit great athletes into power programs from anywhere. And, football, has never been really supported financially by the State in money and in attendance. UConn basketball under Calhoun was exceptional because of the Big East. Even football had a moment or two and then waned into oblivion. Women's basketball due to the reputation of Geno has done well and will do reasonably well as long as he remains as Coach. After that, who knows. If you had a long memory, you can think back when Connecticut burned its bridges with other Athletic programs by using politics to protest the admission of other Big East programs to other leagues leaving UConn behind. UConn will eventually assimilate into the AAC and consider itself to be lucky in that league and perform accordingly or to save money, which I suspect is the next course of action, downgrade athletics at the University. All this is just speculation and what I have observed since I attended and graduated from UConn from 1961 to 1964 and has no other foundation than historical and financial demographic data to create this theory so take it with a grain of salt. [/QUOTE]

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